Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lied to me , though , when I asked at about the age of eight what she 'd done : she said she 'd worked in an office , done clerical work . |
| 2 | I mean at to hospital . |
| 3 | That night I woke at half-past three and lay brooding over my lack of progress . |
| 4 | Erm not too bad , I mean we 've done a The last thing I done at at the night school , was a historogram . |
| 5 | Well every domestic I go to , I look at as a potential murder . |
| 6 | Oh unless I run at at five o'clock like we us then you 're not in are you ? |
| 7 | I worked at as a nurse and there 's , actually there 's a lot of pressure going on there as will back up . |
| 8 | We erm of course , this is besides the ordinary classes that they take erm now I believe there 's doing something for the erm , what was the one I looked at on the board the other day for tracing your ancestors back , you know . |
| 9 | Erm I think at at the at the very erm most it would be necessary to widen erm Church Lane as far as the western boundary of Spring Hill Farm . |
| 10 | This information fits logically with other known factors which occurred at about the time that people began this transition , observed Harris , including spreading village life and a rapid increase in the human population . |
| 11 | The Oedipus complex coincides with the phallic phase , which occurs at about the age of three , in which both boys and girls are interested in the penis . |
| 12 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 13 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 14 | It can also be used to fire a wide range of appliances — boilers , radiant and convector heaters — which burn at between 70 and 85% efficiency . |
| 15 | Examination of the location of the cDNA by autoradiography illustrated that a difference in migration between uncomplexed cDNA ( lane 2 as control ) and the cDNA:RNA complex , which migrates at about the same rate as uncomplexed RNA , could be distinguished . |
| 16 | A computer is a wonderfully useful tool but it will be only a nuisance to your wife if all the language data is locked up on disks and she has nothing to look at in a spare five minutes . |
| 17 | But the man who lived at in Rendall , he was going to retire . |
| 18 | As you hint at in your letter , the musical ‘ anoraks ’ are often of the ‘ would n't know it if they heard it ’ variety anyway , and hate the thought of anyone having an intuition , or a touch or a sense of hearing which they themselves could never muster . |
| 19 | No , not at all , er , but I , I , I , am someone who believes you 've got to have level playing fields , which we do not have , er or wo n't have , er with the implementation of the common market er , regardless of any relationship with the Soviet Union in 1992 , er after all to , what has not been published very much , er is that , you know , got to take into account indirect as well as direct and erm , if you look at for instance the United States er which is constantly packing the common market people , which is of course , er |
| 20 | But everybody you see now , you look at in a different light . |
| 21 | I think , I think a shop , if you look at from the shop 's point of view erm I think it is quite understandable and natural that they would , they would either like a receipt or at least they would like to see some evi |
| 22 | he 's one of these men who stand up and talk whether they 've got anything to say or not you know at at meetings |
| 23 | She worked at on the North Bridge in Leicester . |
| 24 | about conjunctions that you looked at on Friday . |
| 25 | So when you looked at in the in the exam , did you think , Oh , they 're not giving me enough information here , or There 's some trick I do n't know , or what did you think about it ? |
| 26 | This last was to acknowledge Charles , whom she looked at for a moment with suspicion . |
| 27 | Now another thing as I said that she looked at in terms of clusters was the centre line . |
| 28 | And she went at around one o'clock . |
| 29 | So if we said take away three , let's do this first it 's bit easier , plus five take away plus three , you start at plus five , take away means count that way , count to the left towards the negative numbers , so we count three . |
| 30 | And er how how many people did you get at at these street meetings in the marketplace ? |